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Forgive me for asking a silly question: So are the novels themselves licensed in North America yet? While licensing anime and manga is the norm, I have no idea if light novels are ever considered for translation by licensing companies.

The reason I ask this is that this series might interest me to do a serialized translation of the novels into English if the novels aren't licensed. Stay tuned.

Forgive me for asking a silly question: So are the novels themselves licensed in North America yet? While licensing anime and manga is the norm, I have no idea if light novels are ever considered for translation by licensing companies.

The reason I ask this is that this series might interest me to do a serialized translation of the novels into English if the novels aren't licensed. Stay tuned.

Not a silly question ;p. And they're not 'licensed'. For them to be translated into english would require a gutsy or desperate publisher; there is no guaranteed market for them.

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Originally Posted by Sushi-Y

Why would you want to be spoiled? Wouldn't it be more fun to find out on your own by following the anime?

But still, I'll answer it here, but I wouldn't read it if I were you.

Spoiler:

Spoiler for you really shouldn't:

Mikuru beam is real, this particular one was a laser beam, or more specifically, a condensed photon laser. Kyon would've had a nice hole burned through the camera and his head if Yuki didn't block it for him.

Actually... its a relatively unexplored area in hobbydom as far as I can tell. I picked up a few Shuffle! novels just to see what they were about but I wasn't interested enough in the story line to translate very much.

Haruhi's novels... OTOH .... might be a lot of fun, especially with all the odd jargon slung around. That might be worth a small thread in itself if a few people are puzzling over various parts. I might order the novels myself... even if they're beyond my current skill -- they'd make some incentive for a great read down the road.

Haruhi's novels... OTOH .... might be a lot of fun, especially with all the odd jargon slung around. That might be worth a small thread in itself if a few people are puzzling over various parts. I might order the novels myself... even if they're beyond my current skill -- they'd make some incentive for a great read down the road.

Hey, that's an excellent idea; most of my English skill comes from extensive reading; reading Japanese would be a great way to improve my written language.

Of course, my problem at the moment is a large gap between written and spoken skill; being unfamiliar with the word forms, I'm a painfully slow reader (though that can be improved), but more importantly, while I can understand spoken Japanese (to a degree), reading kanji is another matter.

Kid, episode 1 was a movie made by Haruhi, if you watch it all the way to the end, you'll see. If you've been listening to Kyon's comments along the episode as well.

Though it still doesn't explain the cat being able to talk as Kyon went, "Hey Shaimsen, stop talking!" He wasn't surprised it was talking, he was surprised that he was talking when he wasn't suppose too.

An esper if I recall correctly has something to do with people with ESP or telepathy.

Priceless though, when the fireworks were going and the teachers just rush in like WTF!?

EDIT: Yeah many edits, I've been sifting through other information and apparently Yuki was told by Kyon that she looks better without glasses. Also, the series isn't really linear, episode 1, since SOS is formed making the movie, then episode 2 which is the start, etc.

You should... umm... rewatch Ep.Zero... then maybe watch a few more episodes. If you haven't yet figured out that Ep.Zero was a movie made by this club of high school students... err... yeah... And while events in the movie are a pretty damn scary reflection of events in the Anime itself... that's another story entirely ^^

I don't suggest reading any of these spoilers... as they're going to be rather vague... but here is what I've managed to figure out thus far.

From nasheq

Why does Mikuru say "goodby ... oh" she hesitates and then puts her hand to her
face and then says bye again. WTF?

Spoiler:

I'm of the opinion she hit her nose with the paycheck... Which sorta makes sense considering where she placed it/how she bowed her head.

Is there any significance in the bunny suit?

Spoiler:

Kyon seems to like it... At the moment, that seems to be significant enough

Why did Yuki take off her glasses for ep 0?

Spoiler:

Kyon tells Yuki she looks cuter without them, so she stops wearing them

Is the Stirling Inferno real?

Spoiler:

Real enough to deflect BB gun bullets, but anything sturdy could do that if the weilder was skilled enough

Are the shops for the commercials real places in real life?

Spoiler:

In real life? Clueless, but it seems unlikely. There have been very interesting photo's posted in these forums that point out exactly how accurate the anime is in regards to it's landscape... But I don't see any reason to put real life shops in the show. The kind forumites who have read the novels have suggested there's a really good reason for the commercials, as well as having Haruhi repeat the disclaimer twice... but I don't understand them myself.

What is the cat in this episode and why does the cat talk?

Spoiler:

The cat is a male siamese (?) cat with those markings... Which is semi-significant of itself. And the cat talks because Haruhi wanted a talking cat in the show

Why is yuki holding the cat?

Spoiler:

IMO? She looks cuter than heck with that cat perched on her shoulder... But honestly, shouldn't all alien witches have cat familiars?

is the mikuru - yuki - itsuki love triangle real?

Spoiler:

Doubt it... I doubt it quite a lot

what's kyon's real name? who is he? does he have any special powers?

Spoiler:

Kyon's real name has yet to be revealved, even in Vol7 of the novels (not that I can read them T_T)... that's sort of the irony. As often as our narrator complains about people calling him Kyon, he has yet to tell us his name. Which implies quite a lot to various people

From this ep it seems Itsuki is the key to Yuki's power of "advancing the universe" ... ok wtf does that mean?

Itsuki was (IMO) only talking about himself in that scene... but outside of the movie he was talking about someone else entirely as the key who is unable to affect anything, but rather is a means to open a door.

//EDIT: As an aside... shouldn't this whole topic be moved to the Suzumiya Haruhi Episode 1 Discussion where it belongs? >_>;;